Quick read paging3 source code by AI tool

发表于 2024-12-10 分类于 Andriod ， AI

Google NotebookLM is the sharp AI spear, Android Paging3 lib is the tough shield.
Let break this shield using the spear to learn.

Context

Paging3 is a complicate Android lib with a bunch of classes to do the paging stuff, although it hard to understand and use, but we use it for now and need to known the details. The article here introduce a way to read and understand the lib source code quickly by leveraging the AI tool of Google NotebookLM.

The initial purpose it to understand how the prepend loading is triggered, is it able to manually triggered with flexibility, while dive deep into it, it really deep to follow, lots of classes and concepts is defined to achieve the purpose. NotebookLM come rescue me from the headache.

By pasting all the source code to it as context, it knowns relationship between classes, it explains concept well. It even draw the nice diagrams with little modified input. And the most detailed and accurate is the explanation of the functions.

Preparation

Download all the paging3 source code using https://downgit.github.io/#/home
- Paging3 common lib source code: https://github.com/androidx/androidx/tree/androidx-main/paging/paging-common/src/commonMain/kotlin/androidx/paging
Use copy-files-to-clipboard-for-llm plugin to merge all the files and copy to clipboard
Paste the source code to NotebookLM as the reference source
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